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This post is an excerpt from the Q4 2025 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forestry industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. To learn more about the Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), click here or email Nick DiLuzio more…
This post is the third in a series related to the Q4 2025 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. To learn more or to subscribe to the FRQ, please contact Nick DiLuzio more…
This post includes ideas and content covered in the virtual Timber Market Analysis class, October 1st and 2nd, 2025. Lumber prices, OSB prices, construction spending, and housing starts are down. Manufacturing input costs, tariff rates, and policy frictions are up. more…
Co-authored by Pat Jolley This post is an excerpt from the Q3 2025 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. The U.S. pallet industry produces an estimated 600 million new more…
This blog includes data from Forisk’s North American Mill Capacity Database, a database of over 2,300 wood-using mills in North America. For more information on the mill database or Forisk’s other products, please visit forisk.com or contact Nick DiLuzio at ndiluzio@forisk.com. By Pat Jolley more…
By Gracie Knight, Forisk Intern In the Pacific Northwest (PNW), logs are typically scaled based on the Scribner Decimal C Log Rule that estimates the board feet of lumber recoverable from a log based on small end diameter and more…
In Q1 2025, the Forisk Wood Fiber Review added a new chapter tracking the performance, production and exports from publicly traded companies including Canfor (CFP), GreenFirst Forest Products (TSX: GFP), Interfor (IFSPF), PotlatchDeltic (PCH), West Fraser (WFG), and Weyerhaeuser (WY). more…
This post includes themes from the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on April 3rd, 2025. Early registration ends March 20th! Over the past 30 years, the ownership and management of private industrial forestland has changed. Fewer forest owning firms are more…
The Forisk Research Quarterly publishes analysis of the softwood lumber sector in North America and capital investment trends. To produce custom reports and maps, check out Forisk’s North American Forest Industry Capacity Database. Discounted rates available for companies that also subscribe to more…
Between reporting on artificial intelligence and the Luka Doncic trade to the LA Lakers, news leaked about potential U.S. tariffs on imports from Canada. While headlines screamed – see the January 31st The Wall Street Journal editorial “The Dumbest Trade more…